Posts Tagged ‘cooning’

Spike Lee,
Each artist should be allowed to pursue their artistic endeavors, but I still think there is a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery. I know it’s making a lot of money and breaking records, but we can do better. … I am a huge basketball fan, and when I watch [...]

Cooning – Using buffoonery to satirize stereotypical characteristics of ANY race or ethnic group for purposes of entertainment. Historically, white actors would dress in shabby clothing, paint their faces black, speak with slow, slang filled speech, and portray ape-like mannerisms. Today, most cases of cooning involves a person satirizing his/her own race for [...]